A look into Quarkus and Agentic Commerce with Holly Cummins and Michal Maléř (#89)

For this episode of the Foojay Podcast, we invited the author of three recent posts published on Foojay. And he brought a colleague to get even more expert knowledge in this podcast! We talk about Quarkus, how it is "cloud-native", how it compares to other frameworks, the advantages for developers and managers, etc. We also discussed nano businesses and how they can serve as a model for paying creators of digital content, thanks to x402 and ERC-8004.

Michal Maléř
• foojay.io/today/author/michal-maler
• linkedin.com/in/michal-maléř-69344692 (linkedin.com/in/michal-mal%C3%A9%C5%99-69344692)
• mickeymaler.com
Holly Cummins
• linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins
• hollycummins.com
• noti.st/holly-cummins

Links
• Quarkus: A Runtime and Framework for Cloud-Native Java (foojay.io/today/quarkus-a-runtime-and-framewor…)
• Optimizing Java for the Cloud-Native Era with Quarkus (foojay.io/today/optimizing-java-for-the-cloud-…)
• Not a Lucid Web3 Dream Anymore: x402, ERC-8004, A2A, and The Next Wave of AI Commerce (foojay.io/today/not-a-lucid-web3-dream-anymore…)
• J-Spring 2023: Five Tricks for Java - Holly Cummins (youtube.com/watch?v=eCQKYStnqW8): The code we write has a climate impact. But how big is that impact? How do we measure it? How do we reduce it? Is the cloud helping?
• JavaFX In Action #10 with Clément de Tastes about QuarkusFX, combining the strengths of Quarkus and JavaFX (webtechie.be/post/2024-11-19-jfxinaction-cleme…)
• Comparing a REST H2 Spring versus Quarkus application on Raspberry Pi (webtechie.be/post/2020-07-28-spring-versus-qua…)
• Open Source Collective (opencollective.com/opensource)
• Commonhaus Foundation (commonhaus.org)
• A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools (cassidoo.co/post/ai-llm-discoverability)

Content

00:00 Introduction of topic and guests
01:04 Why contribute to Foojay as an author
01:33 What is Quarkus?
02:56 Quarkus compared with other frameworks
05:08 Quarkus a replacement for JVM?
06:40 Build time optimization versus Ahead Of Time (AOT) versus Just In Time (JIT)
12:53 Other important facts about Quarkus
18:13 Impact on Cloud financial and ecological cost
21:31 Vert.x reactive toolkit compared to Virtual Threads
24:14 New features in Quarkus
26:02 Is Quarkus more modern compared to other frameworks?
27:13 What are chain transactions
31:10 How can a (web) author earn from his content?
35:54 How this can impact open-source development
38:34 Will these open standards get adopted?
39:47 How opensource can be funded (Commonhaus)
43:00 How content creators could be funded and publish their content in the future
46:01 MCP as content distribution (with Quarkus)?
46:49 Conclusion